James Joseph Collins 1886 : Short Biography

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This is my grandmothers brother. I have been searching for him and only recently discovered he went to Australia and would like to contact my Australian cousins.

Helen Martin

Sunday 4th April 2021 02:04PM

As my sister has said we have only been doing genealogy recently but have all the information required for James family as far back as 1791 to present date

Doreen Smith
we would be delighted to help our Austrailian family

Doreen

Monday 7th June 2021 04:36PM

Hello Helen and Doreen,
How lovely to stumble across your outreach. I am a grandchild of James Joseph Collins and Annie Monaghan. However, my mum was a "late" baby (born when nanna Annie Collins was 42) and when her dad (the same James Joseph Collins) died days after his motorcycle vs car accident when my mum was 7 (about 1938), nanna Annie struggled financially with four adult sons to support. So she was persuaded to supposedly"adopt" my mum out to a man and woman from another state a long way away. The woman made sure my mum did not have contact with her Irish family, so mum was only able to track down her real family when she was about 18, had left home from that 'supoosedly adopted' family and married my dad and still lived in that town so far away from her real family. Therefore, my own knowledge of James Joseph and his family is limited to what I learned while growing up a long way away from the Irish family, albeit with visits and constant communication between my mum and those families, mainly through my (favourite) uncle Martin, aka Bluey because of his red hair. Anyway I have written out all that I know and would like to send it to you but given that it contains information about living family, I would prefer to send it to you by email if that's O.K. Is it safe to post my email address as a comment or is there a more private way I can send you my email address and the Australian family history of James Joseph that I have written out for you?
Very kind regards from Lesley Jones (nee Window, daughter of Josephine Elizabeth Collins daughter of James Joseph C)

Monday 9th May 2022 08:57AM

Hi Lesley

Hope I don’t wake you as I am not sure of the time difference.

Myself and Helen were delighted to hear from you. I am giving you my Email address and we can keep in contact that way preferably.

James was our Nana Cecilia (Ciss) brother and your mams name is after 2 of his other sisters Josephine and Elizabeth. Cecilia had 4 children one of them a son Lesley so names do have a habit of coming full circle.

My Email is doreensmith52@hotmail.com. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Lots of love from Dublin.

Yours sincerely

 

Doreen Smith

IrelandXO Moderator DC

Wednesday 11th May 2022 07:31PM

Hello Helen, Doreen and Lesley

I am the biological daughter of Bartholomew (Snow) Collins - son of James. As I was adopted at birth, I get pretty excited when I hear of ancestors! Lesley - I have met your Mum a couple of times and have been delighted with the information she has

I would love to keep in touch if that is OK with you ladies

Heather ( born Collins) adopted Hodgson, married Lee

 

Heather

Saturday 14th May 2022 12:39AM

Hello Heather and Doreen and Helen,
What a lovely surprise to welcome you Heather, even though this whole serendipitous blessing is solely due to the amazing efforts of Helen and Doreen (thank you both Helen and Doreen again and again and again!).
Yes Heather, my mum spoke very fondly of you when she met you.
It's so lovely to connect with all of you despite the stresses and strains that break these strong family bonds.
Helen and Doreen, here in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, I think we are about 10 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time so we sleep while you are awake and vice versa. At least I think that is approximately the time difference (I think Ireland is very roughly about 12 or 13 hours behind Brisbane) . However, please don't ever worry about waking me because I don't use the phone or internet like most people do. I only turn it on when it suits me. So you are always very welcome to post comments to me anytime and I WILL try to respond but I don't get much spare time.
And once again, welcome to Heather. I think my mum will have already shared with you far more family history memories than even what she has shared with me incidentally over the years. I have researched family history since before I was 30 (I will be 70 in September).
Most contemporary descendants
are not interested until they reach their later years. I am very happy to share any family history I have or that I can research, however I think I have far less to contribute than my mother or my cousins (Kerry Collins - Martin's daughter, and Veronica - Jim's youngest daughter) will have. My mother and these cousins have been meeting recently to share family history and memories. So please feel welcome to contact them directly (I don't have their contact details sorry.) However, I don't have any of that information.
Hugs to all of you and your families.

Saturday 14th May 2022 09:37AM

Hello Helen, Doreen and Heather,
Further to my recent comment above, here is a screenshot from Familysearch of my cousin (oops, OUR cousin Kerry Collins Genealogy (on Familysearch) showing the details we know about James Joseph Collins' wife, our grandmother, Anne Collins (nee Monaghan) b. about 1891 Galway. Of particular relevance is that cousin Kerry only submitted this Genealogy to Familysearch about 2 months ago, so the information will be far more current and accurate than the vague info that I can offer. Also, it gives you an avenue to contact her more directly through Familysearch - which will save delays in me trying to track down her contact details for you (which I cannot get easily through other avenues). She is lovely (they all are) and I am sure she will be really thrilled to connect with you, not only because (I think) like me, she was unable to trace James Joseph Collins' history back beyond his parents but more importantly to connect with our Irish family. So I will try to attach here a screenshot (not sure how to do this) of her details on her Familysearch Genealogy so you can contact her faster. I hope this helps you all. Kind regards from Lesley (nee Window)

Saturday 14th May 2022 10:40AM

No, looks like I cannot figure out how to upload the screenshot. But just look up
Familysearch
Genealogies
Kerry Collins tree Feb.
2022

Saturday 14th May 2022 10:47AM

No, looks like I cannot figure out how to upload the screenshot. But just look up
Familysearch
Genealogies
Kerry Collins tree Feb.
2022

Saturday 14th May 2022 10:47AM

Hi Lesley and Heather

 

So delighted that we all have finally managed to find each other half a world away.

 

Doreen is the main ‘librarian’ of the family documents and she is planning to share all the information that we have gathered to date.

 

So far we have not found any criminals, celebrities or unclaimed inheritance (only joking) while researching but it’s wonderful to find a bunch of cousins with the same interests in tracing our family roots.

 

If any of you are on Facebook send an email to Doreen and we can link up on that platform too.

 

Stay safe and well.

 

Helen 

IrelandXO Moderator DC

Sunday 15th May 2022 01:54PM

Hello Ladies

Lesley Heather and Kerry hope you are all keeping well. Please accept my appoligies for no messages getting to you but I did send information  but unfortunatly I  was only sending to Helen and she thought i was just checking with her so none of you got any information at all. Thats what happens when you get old ( haha). Idont know how to send but I promise I will find a way.I know you know of Helen and myself Doreen (Dorothy Cecilia) after my mam and grandmother. We also have a sister Philomena (Phil) and a brother William (Liam). Phil helps with practical stuff with us like visiting graveyards and the research in records offices.

How extraordinary that we are not only joining family in Austrailia from Ireland but our Austrailian family are joining with each other also. I want to send info but i have a lot of birth baptismal marriage and death certs so I am sending a summerised written account starting with 1790 with the oldest person we found and work forward as I think it would be easier to follow.

Will try send attachment after this note.

 

Lots of love to all Doreen

 

 

Doreen

Sunday 22nd May 2022 12:17PM

Hello Doreen and all cousins,
Thank you Doreen for wanting to share so much really valuable family history. I remember in 1982 when I took my mum to Ireland, I spent a lot of money getting certificates, based on my mum's very sketchy knowledge, but all to no avail. (But one of the 'ushers' at the Four Courts pulled a button from his uniform coat and gave it to me as a souvenir. I still have it 40 years on. It has a harp on it.) Anyway, what you intend sharing with us is information that I reckon none of us would be able to track down otherwise. So Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
And please don't apologies for not keeping in touch or not being able to to send us your information. We all have lives outside family history and be we all do our best to share our info. It's just so lovely to know that you are all "out there" and that you all feel the family bonds that I feel. (So please pass on hugs to Helen, Phil and Liam from all of us here.
I am OK with technology but I deliberately reject it most of the time because it steals my time that I prefer to spend saving Australian wildlife here, so that's where my focus always has been and it takes up most of my time. It's inconvenient, dirty, sometimes dangerous, often heartbreaking and keeps me poor (especially the cost of fuel, e.g. a 400 kms round trip a few weeks ago and the poor baby kngaroo joey ended up dying but he got the best chance at life that we volunteers could manage) but I know this is what I am meant to do AND I am good at it.
However I will do my best to keep in touch and to help in any way that I can.
(That's why I have given you Kerry's contact - so I don't delay the flow in information between all of us because I am often uncontactable) and I am so glad that Heather has connected with us all.
Anyway, it's almost 11pm here now, so I am off to bed - I have to be up at 6am tomorrow to go to the airport. So goodnight to you all and I am sending you big hugs. Kind regards from Lesley

Sunday 22nd May 2022 12:46PM

Hello Doreen and all cousins,
Thank you Doreen for wanting to share so much really valuable family history. I remember in 1982 when I took my mum to Ireland, I spent a lot of money getting certificates, based on my mum's very sketchy knowledge, but all to no avail. (But one of the 'ushers' at the Four Courts pulled a button from his uniform coat and gave it to me as a souvenir. I still have it 40 years on. It has a harp on it.) Anyway, what you intend sharing with us is information that I reckon none of us would be able to track down otherwise. So Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
And please don't apologies for not keeping in touch or not being able to to send us your information. We all have lives outside family history and be we all do our best to share our info. It's just so lovely to know that you are all "out there" and that you all feel the family bonds that I feel. (So please pass on hugs to Helen, Phil and Liam from all of us here.
I am OK with technology but I deliberately reject it most of the time because it steals my time that I prefer to spend saving Australian wildlife here, so that's where my focus always has been and it takes up most of my time. It's inconvenient, dirty, sometimes dangerous, often heartbreaking and keeps me poor (especially the cost of fuel, e.g. a 400 kms round trip a few weeks ago and the poor baby kngaroo joey ended up dying but he got the best chance at life that we volunteers could manage) but I know this is what I am meant to do AND I am good at it.
However I will do my best to keep in touch and to help in any way that I can.
(That's why I have given you Kerry's contact - so I don't delay the flow in information between all of us because I am often uncontactable) and I am so glad that Heather has connected with us all.
Anyway, it's almost 11pm here now, so I am off to bed - I have to be up at 6am tomorrow to go to the airport. So goodnight to you all and I am sending you big hugs. Kind regards from Lesley

Sunday 22nd May 2022 12:46PM

Sorry it wont let me send the written pages 

This is the earliest record i could find

Patt Collins and Bridget Dolway had 

William Collins on 16th March 1791 in Drogheda

William married Mary ONeill they had 

Thomas born - died March 1847 age 20 on Tullyallen headstone have photo of headstone

John born February 1824 died July 1846 age 22 on headstone 

James born 1830 died May 1892

Cathe baptised 11th March 1833 

Cathe emigrated to Conneticut USA  and her father William must have gone over also at some point

but he died over there in Conneticut on 28th December 1859 Have photo of headstone 

James married Eliza Martin on 24th November 1853 they had 

William born 1854 couldnt find info

James born 1856 (our G G Grandfather) died 18th August 1912

Bartholemew (Bartle) born1859 died single 9th march 1922

John Thomas born 1863 died single 8th May 1883

Laurence born 1865 died single 5th January 1899

Elizabeth (Eliza) born 1866 died single 8th January 1936

Thomas born 1870 died single 9th July 1939

Frances born 1872 died single May 1941

James (our G Grandfather)married Maryanne Duffy 18th January 1878

They had a daughter Ellen Louise in early 1879 and on 9th July 1879 Maryanne died from TB

We have not been able to trace the daughter

James then married Mary Grimes on 9th October 1882 they had

Elizabeth born 1883. married William Synnott had 1 son Albert in the navy

Maryanne born 1884 but sadly died 1885 age 1

James (your James) born 1886. Emigrated to Austrailia

mary born 1888. married Christopher Boland they had Vincent Monica Eileen Maisie

Batholemew (Bartle) born 1890 sadly died age 25 1915

Josephine born 1891. ahd a son when she was 17 but we cant find him she married John Kelly in 1919

Cecilia (our Grandmother) born 1896 married Sydney Richardson they had

twin boys John and Earnest but 1 died at 4 weeks and the other at 4and a half weeks

Elizabeth (Lillian)

Dorothy

Lesley

Sydney

If any one has questions cntact me on email doreensmith52@hotmail.com

Doreen

Sunday 22nd May 2022 01:11PM

just let me know what certs anyone wants and i will do my best to get them for you

doreen

Doreen

Sunday 22nd May 2022 01:20PM

Hello Doreen, Helen, Lesley and Kerry

How lucky are we!

Thank you so much to you all for willingly sharing your information - I hadn’t got further than James, father of James and father of that James! So to get all the added info is beyond exciting!

We are so fortunate these days to be able to reach out via technology - imagine if we were waiting for info to travel the world via snail mail!

To me, it is very exciting to find biological rellies, to become part of a family group that shares the same roots. I do hope we can continue to communicate

The timing of your initial communication was quite interesting - I am involved with Genealogy Sunshine Coast - the family history group near where I live. We have a life member who has done a lot of work with Irish records, and it was she who suggested I connect with Ireland Reaching Out. My main reason for wanting to start getting involved, is that I am actually planning to visit Ireland and Wales in March/ April 2023, and I wanted as much background information as possible, and then suddenly, here comes Doreen, Lesley and Helen! Kerry and I have met on a few occasions, and she has kindly shares photos, information and some very special family keepsakes, which are very special

Lesley - you are one busy lady!

Love to you all, and so many thank you’d!

Heather
 
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IrelandXO Moderator DC

Friday 27th May 2022 02:41PM

Lesley, thank you for enabling us to be introduced to some new Irish cousins. I've sent an email using the address I dedicate especially for family research
15stellascott@gmail.com
And Lesley, please contact me directly whenever you choose. I've already sent an email to Ireland to introduce myself as I use emails daily and understand how to attach photos etc so it suits me best.
Until we chat again, to all of my cousins take care and let's expand our family tree
With joy
Kerry Beeton nee Collins

Kerry

Tuesday 31st May 2022 03:18PM